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Spiaggia. Spiaggia was an Italian restaurant in Chicago on Michigan Avenue at Oak Street. After 37 years on the "Magnificent Mile," Spiaggia closed permanently, having never reopened following its COVID-19 closure in March 2020. [1] It was nominated for the James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurant in 2007 and 2010. [2]
Sarah Grueneberg is an American chef who is head chef and owner of Monteverde Restaurant & Pastificio in Chicago. While executive chef at Spiaggia, she held a Michelin star for three years. In 2017, she was named the 2017 Best Chefs in the Great Lakes at the James Beard Foundation Awards. Grueneberg came second in the ninth season of Top Chef ...
It was designated a Chicago Landmark on May 9, 1996. The building was transformed into the Hard Rock Cafe's Hard Rock Hotel Chicago. Renovation began in 2001 and was completed in 2004. The $106 million conversion (equivalent to $171 million in 2023) [5] was directed by Lucien Lagrange & Associates. The hotel began hosting guests on January 1 ...
L2O was a Chicago seafood restaurant opened in 2008 by chef Laurent Gras and owned and operated by Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises. The name of the restaurant stands for Lake to Ocean. The restaurant was located at 2300 N. Lincoln Park West, Chicago, Illinois 60614. L 2 O and Alinea were the only restaurants in Chicago to receive three stars ...
Career. Arnie Morton opened his first restaurant, the Walton Walk, between Rush Street and Michigan Avenue in the 1950s. [4] This paved the way for a partnership with Victor Lownes and Hugh Hefner, launching the Playboy Club in 1960. [4] Morton was the right-hand man of Hugh Hefner when he launched the Playboy Empire on February 29, 1960. [6]
Hard Rock Cafe, Inc. Hard Rock Cafe, Inc. is a chain of theme bar-restaurants, memorabilia shops, casinos and museums founded in 1971 by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton in London. In 1979, the cafe began covering its walls with rock and roll memorabilia, a tradition which expanded to others in the chain. In 2007, Hard Rock Cafe International ...
October 17, 2024 at 3:53 AM. CHICAGO - A man and a woman were kidnapped and robbed early Friday morning after they were confronted by five people outside a Little Village restaurant. The 48-year ...
Coordinates. 41°53′03″N 87°37′34″W / 41.8843°N 87.6260°W / 41.8843; -87.6260. The Blackhawk was a restaurant in the Chicago Loop from 1920 to 1984. It served a menu of American cuisine, notably prime rib and a signature "spinning salad bowl", and was, in the early part of its history a nationally known entertainment ...